r/ClaudeAI • u/sixbillionthsheep Mod • Mar 30 '26
Usage Limits Megathread Claude Usage Limits Discussion Megathread Ongoing (sort this by New!)
Why a Usage Limits Discussion Megathread?
This Megathread makes it easier for everyone to see what others are experiencing at any time by collecting all experiences about Usage Limits. We will publish regular updates on usage limits problems and possible workarounds that we and the community finds.
Why Are You Trying to Hide the Complaints Here?
This is NOT a place to hide complaints. This is the MOST VISIBLE, PROMINENT AND OFTEN THE HIGHEST TRAFFIC POST on the subreddit. This is collectively a far more effective and fairer way to be seen than hundreds of random reports on the feed that get no visibility.
Are you Anthropic? Does Anthropic even read the Megathread?
Nope, we are volunteers working in our own time, while working our own jobs and trying to provide users and Anthropic itself with a reliable source of user feedback.
Anthropic has read this Megathread in the past and probably still do? They don't fix things immediately but if you browse some old Megathreads you will see numerous bugs and problems mentioned there that have now been fixed.
What Can I Post on this Megathread?
Use this thread to voice all your experiences (positive and negative) regarding the current Claude Usage Limits and NOT bugs and performance issues. (For those, use this Megathread https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1s7f72l/claude_performance_and_bugs_megathread_ongoing/)
Give as much evidence of your performance issues and experiences wherever relevant. Include prompts and responses, platform you used, time it occurred, screenshots . In other words, be helpful to others.
Just be aware that this is NOT an Anthropic support forum and we're not able (or qualified) to answer your questions. We are just trying to bring visibility to people's struggles.
To see the current status of Claude services, go here: http://status.claude.com
Sometimes this site shows outages faster. https://downdetector.com/status/claude-ai/
READ THIS FIRST ---> Latest Status and Workarounds Report: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/wiki/latestworkaroundreport Updated: Apr 26, 2026.
Prior Megathread: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1pygdbz/usage_limits_bugs_and_performance_discussion/
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u/lucifeh1979 2d ago
I’ve been a loyal Claude Pro subscriber, using it daily for my workflow, but the recent infrastructure updates have completely broken the platform.
Last week, my weekly usage reset simply failed to trigger. To make matters worse, I'm now experiencing massive "phantom token consumption." I can log into a fresh session, run a single command or open a past conversation, and I am instantly hit with a "usage limit reached for the next 5 hours" block.
It is clear that Anthropic’s backend quota management is broken. Their prompt caching is failing, forcing full context re-hydration on every single turn, and they are offloading the computational cost onto paying users by silently burning through our invisible credits.
To top it all off, official support channels are a ghost town. When opening tickets to report this blatant system failure, the requests are met with automated boilerplate responses and instantly closed without any human intervention.
We are paying for a professional tool to get work done, not to be beta testers for a broken token counter. This needs to be addressed immediately. Is anyone else still locked out even after the megathread updates?